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Autistic Child: Can A Smart Watch Actually Help? · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So can SmartWatches help autistic?
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  Children, all that's coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspie world. My name is Don.
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  I have autism and ADHD and OCD and dyslexia.
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  And I make weekly videos on this type of content.
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  Facebook to see more videos just like this one guys, so I came
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  across this really, really interesting article.
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  Talking about smart watches and autistic children, right?
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  And I'm a huge lover. Like I wear a smartwatch.
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  I've had a smartwatch now for about five years and I've had
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  the Apple watch. I'm kind of like a Poor guy, you
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  know, I've got like the iPhone, the iPad, the MacBook, the watch
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  the everything up. Alright the headphones Apple TV,
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  you name it whatever. And one of the interesting
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  things is that when I never used to wear a watch until I got the
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  Apple watch and then I got the Apple watch and I found it very,
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  very interesting for one. Simple reason.
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  It alerts. You you can set reminders on
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  your apps and it will alert you on your watch, which I found
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  just absolutely fantastic. And also can track kind of any
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  movement. So if you've not like done any
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  exercising for a while, so okay, you've done.
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  Very little movement. Get up, you know, stop being
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  lazy. It was just cool.
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  And another thing is that, it knows if you're kind of heart
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  rate increases or if you're feeling anxious because it has a
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  little app on, it called breath, which tells you, hey, you need
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  to slow down and take a breath. I found this amazing, but I came
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  across an article and research is in the Boston area of United
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  States have been developing this kind of like program where
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  they're having the parents of the kids, right?
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  So that they'd taken kids, who like preschool kids are young
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  high school kids or middle school kid?
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  And their parents got the iPhone and the parents are like texting
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  their kids indicator over to your lunch today, honey, and
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  then they send the message and then, of course, the kids got a
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  discrete, you know, Apple watch on, and then they kind of
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  quickly glance it. And it says, all message, from
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  my grandmother to take my medicine or over to go to lunch,
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  and I've got lunch money my back, you know, because when you
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  thinking about autistic kids, you thinking about kids who are,
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  you know, overwhelmed with the environment that they don't, you
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  know, it's High School Preschool, Middle School, all of
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  these places schools, just a busy environment, especially if
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  you're on the autism spectrum. Jim Wright.
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  Think about it. You're on the autism spectrum.
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  You got a million and one things going on.
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  It's not easy to be in that school environment.
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  So remembering to take lunch money with you.
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  I'm going to pick up your lunch from your bag, that could be in
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  a locker remembering to take your medication.
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  Remember to even drink water. These tasks can be super
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  difficult for people on the autism spectrum.
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  And for that reason, I think that this has real good weight.
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  Now the idea of the program is that the parents and caregivers
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  send the message or the command to the watch and it's very
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  discreet so that the kids can fit in You know, so one of the
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  things you don't want to do is you don't have like a assistant
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  teacher coming over and be like, hey Dan River, your mum's, just
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  text you to say, take your medication it, right.
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  You just feel like, oh, you know, you'd feel different and
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  you'd feel outside of that Loop of friends, you know, you'd feel
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  like, you know, you'd feel like the kid who had additional needs
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  but, you know, a lot of the time, you know, people want to
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  just fit in, you know, they don't want to kind of be the
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  sore thumb, you know, sticking out in this kind of like, you
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  know, sea of kids and so I can totally sympathize with that.
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  So for the kid to want to, you know, fit In a bit more and be
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  cool, their friends. Having a discrete Smartwatch
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  that you can set to silent is actually having really, really
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  good results. For the parents have already
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  started adopting this idea. I think like, 20 parents, and
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  student pairs have already started doing this in Boston, in
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  a certain school, then somewhere in the USA and they stand like a
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  little text messages. But what they also do is they
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  can send that, like, cartoon pictures, like with the iPhone,
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  you can like send cartoon pictures and send it to the
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  watch, and I'll come up as a little animation, or you can
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  save like a gear for a bitmoji or something like that.
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  And those little cartoons will come up on the watch and you can
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  actually see them as images on the watch.
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  But it's so discreet that even if somebody saw it to be like a
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  hundred just going out gif image from the mum.
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  It's funny, you know, someone eating a chocolate bar or
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  something or some damage, but for that kid, they know exactly
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  what the command is going to be. Now.
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  This is amazing and it's a great step forward have in trying to
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  kind of like a get, you know, smart technology and technology
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  in general or accessibility technology and an implementing
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  That Into, You Know, disability living, you know, because there
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  are huge Ooh, challenges that face people on the autism
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  spectrum. Now, not being just captivated
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  to schooling. I've used similar systems where
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  I've used apps. That will remind me to do stuff.
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  Like I said like I everything I'd rather I have in my life
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  runs on it on an app. Like if I didn't have an app
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  that had time schedules on it and took it to another dentist.
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  I forget to brush my teeth. I forget to drink water.
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  I forget to do all of these things.
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  But because I have my watch on my phone, my iPad cash out on me
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  saying, like, Dan, you know, take your medication, put the
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  dishwasher on, like, seriously, guys.
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  Like every day I have to like, Education is one of the things
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  that I always forget to do. So every single day I have to
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  take my medication. Like my mind is you know, I do.
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  These are some reminders here, actually these a date as two
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  things I've got to do. So, there you go.
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  So you and this thing's shouting on me from yesterday.
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  So medication. Like taking that is super
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  important. There are other apps like Timo
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  and things like that. I've mentioned in other videos
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  and then I'll try and leave a link for a app video, which I've
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  made videos about apps that help people on the Spectrum, but this
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  is a simple, simple technique. All you need is The parents to
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  have an iPhone or a smartphone and then the the child to have a
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  smartwatch or an Apple Watch and then you're able to do the
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  functions what I said. Now, a lot of the time I think,
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  you know, when you're when you're giving your kid like a
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  400 to 500 dollar watch to wear to school.
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  I mean, it's a big ask, and is a big task.
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  But then again, if you think about the parents who give their
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  kids iPads to communicate, well, you know, when their nonverbal
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  autistic, then you know, that's a thousand dollar investment and
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  it is an investment. It's more rather than just like
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  a flashy, flashy watch. This is a Abduct an Adaptive
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  communicative tool that they'll need that.
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  You can get different types of straps for it.
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  That this one does what I've got.
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  Which is a velcro strap that I can.
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  It's made by Nike and get on the Apple Store as well.
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  But this one actually keeps it to my wrist.
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  A lot more because I have like this rubber strap attached to
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  fall off. So there are security measures
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  that you can take in place and is also pass lock on it.
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  So like unless you know the passcode you can't get into the
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  watch. So it's pointless.
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  Anybody stealing it and people already know this anyway, so
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  there's not going to be that many people who are going to
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  want to try and hijack, your kids to steal the watch, not
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  trying to scare anybody. I'm just saying NG, but the
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  principle is really interesting. Now I have left links in the
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  description below so you can check out the article I read.
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  But I'd love to know your discussion on it.
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